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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

Original application filed June 26, 1916, Serial No. 105,858. Dividedand this application filed October 2,

1916. Serial No.123,254.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, WALTER MEYNER, a citizen of the United States, andresident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Toy, of which the following is aspecification.

My present invention relates to trundle toys and is as to the broadfeatures of the invention a division from my prior application SerialNo. 105,858, filed June 26, 1916.

The general objects of the invention are to provide a simple andinexpensive form of toy which will be interesting, amusing, andentertaining and which will be stimulative of healthful. exercise.

Special objects are to secure certain lifelike movements in. a figureforming a part of the toy.

The invention accordingly consists of a hoop, a movable figure ofcharacteristic or ornamental. appearance within the hoop, and rollersriding on the hoop and connected to operate the movable figure, saidparts bearing an eccentric relation to each other whereby to impart thedesired movements to the figure.

Details of the invention will appear as the specification proceeds;attention being directed to the accompanying drawings forming parthereof and wherein I have illustrated the invention embodied in severalpractical and preferred forms.

In said drawings:

Figures 1 and 2, are perspective views of a form wherein the movablefigure is in the nature of a manikin.

Figs. 3 and 4, are similar views, illustrating in successive positionsanother form of manikin.

Figs. 5 and 6, are like views of another form of the invention,embodying a horse and rider.

In several views, 5, designates the trundle or hoop of a convenient sizeand weight, to be easily trundled.

In the first form shown, the Fig. 6, is in the form of a grotesquemanikin having bowed legs 7, in which are journaled rollers 8, oneccentric pivots 9, said rollers having a bearing on the track 10,forming the in nor periphery of the hoop, said hoop being in the natureof a disk and the track being formed eccentrically in said disk. thirdeccentric roller 11, is shown pivoted at 12,

and arranged to bear on the upper portion of the eccentric track.

From this it will be seen that as the hoop is rolled along over asupporting surface the rollers will be rotated by their engagement withthe inner periphery of the hoop and will by the connections described,impart a peculiar rising and falling and rocking movement in the disk orhoop and the effect is enhanced by placing a rotating disk 13, supportedon the rollers S-11.

A handle 14, is usually provided for han dling the toy, this handlebeing shown connected'at 15, with the figure and inclined upwardly andrearwardly to afiord a convenient handhold for pushing the toy.

A convenient and practical method of constructing the toy is to make itin counterpart sections 16, spaced apart a distance slightly greaterthan thethickness of the hoop and with portions 17, overlapping thesides of the hoop so as to confine the figure to the hoop, thesupporting rollers when journaled between these sections, as indicated,being then disposed in the plane of the track 10, which forms the innerperiphery of the hoop.

The rollers and the confining portions are usually arranged in somewhattriangular relation, as shown, so as to hold the parts as sembled,without binding.

The form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4c, comprises a manikin18, supported eccentrically on the hoop, as before, but provided in thiscase with an additional element 19, represented as a hat, riding on theouter periphery of the hoop and connected to the figure by its arms 20.These arm members are shown pivoted to the figure at 21, and pivotedeccentrically to the rolling hat element at 22. This device produces thegrotesque effect of a man, running or jumping along and throwing his hatup and down and at the same time rolling it in his hands.

The device shown in Figs. 5 and 6, is similar to the one just described,in that one figure element is supported on an eccentric trackway withinthe hoop and a second figure element rides on the outer periphery of thehoop. Here the first figure 23, is shown as a horse supported on rollerson the inner eccentric trackway 10, and the other figure element 24:, isshown as a manikin supported by an eccentrically )ivoted roller 25 ridinon the outer rim of the hoop and connected with the horses head bypivoted arm elements 26. The leg portions 27, of the manikin straddlethe horses back and the effect in operation is that of a running horsewith a manib'ouncing up and down on his back.

The invention makes an exceedingly attractive and interesting toy and itwill be seen that it can be made up very simply and inexpensively. 7

What I claim is l. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentrictrack on the inner periphery thereof, rollers bearing on said track anda figure supported by said rollers.

2. A trundle toy comprising a hoop havingv an eccentric track on theinner periphery thereof, eccentrically journaled rollers bearing on saidtrack and a figure supported by said rollers.

' 3. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentrictrack, a rollerriding on said track anda figure supported by said roller.

4." A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track, a rollerriding on said track, a figure supportedby said roller and a handleconnected with said figure.

I 5. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having, an eccentric track on theinner periphery thereof, a figure device supported I on said eccentricinner track and a figure device supported on the outer periphery of the.hoop.

(3. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track on theinner pcriphery thereof, a figure device supported on said eccentricinner track, a figure device supported on the outer periphery of thehoop and a pivoted connection between said, two figure devices.

7. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track on theinner periphery thereof, rollers riding on said track, a figure devicesupported by said rollers, a roller riding on the outer periphery of thehoop, a figure device supported by said roller and a pivoted connectionbetween said two figure devices.

8. A toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric inner track, a figuredevice sup ported on said eccentric inner track, and a second figuredevice connected with the first figure. device and supported on theouter periphery of the hoop, said second figure device having guidingportions engaging over the first figure device.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this28th day of Sept. A. D. 1916.

WALTER MEYNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

